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show You need some characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and behaving that is consistent across situations  
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Two main ways to study personality   show
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show Darwin- man is not special and can be studied like any other part of the natural order. Helmholtz - law of the conservation of energy. Bruke- all living organisms are energy systems. Freud combined all this and said that the human personality is energy sy  
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Freud's 2 main drives   show
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show Id, super-ego, and ego  
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Id   show
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Ego   show
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show All of the messages from parents, teachers, and others about who we should be. It represents the ideal person who is her perfectly moral and virtuous, but we can never reach that. Super-ego pushes us to try, failure may cause guilt, shame...  
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show Dream interpretation. Free association- practice in which a person was encouraged to speak without restraint. Parapraxis/Freudian slip- slip of the tongue of can reveal aspects of the unconsciousness  
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When the Id and superego can't reconcile   show
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show Reality anxiety- came from objective dangers in the environment, neurotic anxiety- related to fears of losing control over the Id, moral anxiety- came from fears of past or future or immoral behavior --> to cope with anxiety we develop defense mechanisms  
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show Unconscious strategies for managing and reducing anxiety  
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Repression   show
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show Reverting to a previous stage of development, presumably one in which a person felt comfortable and didn't experience anxiety. Ex: anxiety causes an adult to thumb suck  
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Reaction Formation   show
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Rationalization   show
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show involves focusing on academic analysis hand study of an area relevant to the person's anxiety, ex: after being cut from the basketball team, Joe obsesses over studying the game strategies  
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show refers to redirecting anxiety away from the real threat and onto a less threatening object or situation. Ex: bad day at work --> yell at child  
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Denial   show
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show Refers to projecting one's own fears and anxieties on to other people. Ex: insisting that a classmate that you hate, hates you  
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show Refers to a redirection of sexual or aggressive energies onto pursuits which are more socially acceptable, ex: instead of getting into a fistfight, writer creates violent characters  
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Psychosexual stages of development (OAPLG)   show
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Oedipus complex   show
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The negative outcome of Oedipus complex   show
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show Girl notices that she lacks a penis and develops penis envy. She experiences a latent sexual desire for her father and they wish to kill her mother, who's she blamed for her apparent castration. Freud believed that girl's overcome their anxiety and penis  
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show A Swiss psychiatrist who founded analytical psychology. He shared for its emphasis on the unconscious processes: personal and collective unconsciousness. Cont.  
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Jung's view on unconsciousness   show
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Archetypes and examples   show
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Attitude types   show
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Personality types   show
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Alfred Adler   show
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Karen horney   show
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show Rational strategies for coping with emotional problems and dust minimizing anxiety: submission- moving toward ppl, agression- moving against ppl, detachment- moving away from ppl  
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Erik Erikson   show
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Evaluating old psychodynamic theories   show
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Evaluating the modern psychoanalytic perspective (Life, Peer, Identity, Dreams, Slips, PTSD = LPIDSP)   show
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Evaluating the modern psychoanalytic perspective   show
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Assessing personality   show
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Projective techniques   show
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Rorschach Inkblot Test   show
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show Focused on having participants explain ambiguous situations --> situations and relationships described could reveal motives, concerns, and characteristic way of viewing the social world  
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show Do stated views reveal how a person is or how they want to be seen? Do respondents create bizarre narratives because those come to mind easily? Can similar answers be given for different underlying reasons? Examiner bias?  
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Trait based assessment   show
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show Hard time collecting information for traits with negative connotations. Face validity- if a test covers the basic concept.  
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show Attempts to assess citrate in an indirect way that is difficult for the participant to conceal  
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Humanistic perspective on personality   show
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show Maslow proposed that we as individuals are motivated by a hierarchy of needs. Beginning with physiological needs, we try to reach the state of self-actualization= fulfilling our potential  
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Self-actualization and the Jonah complex   show
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show Perceive - description of yourself. Ideal - how you would like to be. from a humanistic perspective, a self-actualized person finds the perceived self as completely congruent with the ideal self.  
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show Humanistic view asserts the fundamental goodness of people and their constant striving toward higher levels of functioning. Does not dwell on past experiences but rather focus is on the present and future  
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show actualizing tendency- goal of every organism is to fill the capabilities of our genetic blueprint. Self concepts- human beings form images of themselves. Self actualizing tendency- drive to fulfill self concepts  
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Rogers form of assessing personality   show
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How to become fully functioning   show
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Evaluating the humanistic perspective (Childhood, Vague, Optimistic, Self- centeredness= CVOS)   show
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Cognitive-social learning theories in personality   show
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Cognitive-social expectancies   show
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Performance standards   show
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Self-efficacy   show
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Locus of control   show
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show tendency to highly rate the accuracy of descriptions of our personality that supposedly are tailored specifically to us.  
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Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory (MMPI)   show
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Three types of traits that are assessed   show
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show Trait focused on in 1940s to understand to the rise of fascism. Referred to a tendency for obedience to authority, conformity, and political convertism  
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Which traits should be considered most important   show
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Raymond Cattell   show
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Hans Eysenck   show
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show Melancholic- high neuroticism/low extraversion, choleric- high neuroticism/high extraversion, sanguine- low neuroticism/high extraversion, phlegmatic- low neuroticism/low extraversion  
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show Researchers today focus on 5 main traits because Eysenck's were too small and Cattell's too large so... OCEAN= openness / culture, conscientiousness, extraversion/introversion, agreeableness, neurotism/ emotional stability  
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show How an individual's particular combination of traits interact with one another  
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show They are quite stable in adulthood. However, they change over development  
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show 50% or so for each trait  
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show Yes. Conscientious people are morning type an extroverted are evening type  
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Experience sampling   show
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show How a person processes information, makes decisions, and chooses behaviors. the trade based perspective can be accused of using circular logic to evade provide an explanation to how personality works  
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show There may be underlying biological links to personality traits. further research has suggested of the existence of two opposing systems which may relate to sensation-seeking and emotional stability: BAS and BIS  
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show A reward seeking system related to dopamine pathways and greater activity in left prefrontal cortex in responding to incentives and rewards  
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Behavioral inhibition system (BIS)   show
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The person-situation controversy   show
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Person variables   show
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show Self schema- Larger and more complex than most other schema. Self serving bias- free calling achievements and successes while forgetting failures, which may play an important role in the development of self schema  
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show How every person deals with existence. How we deal with existential crisis may create our personality  
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show The awareness of death which causes us to define the meaning of our lives. Generally done in the context of our social and cultural environment as we attempt to figure out our own values and how we fit into society  
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show The tendency for most people to believe that they are above average. Relates to self-serving bias  
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Personal constructs   show
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Reciprocal determinism   show
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Identity claims   show
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show The physical traces of activities conducted in the environment (scattered charcoal from drawing) or traces of behavior conducted outside the environment (snowboard propped against the wall)  
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show observer consensus is not equally strong for all trades judged by far, the strongest consensus was obtained for extra virgin, with conscientiousness and distant second, and the least consensus found for agreeableness  
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show Physical spaces hold marcuse to an occupant level of organization, tidiness, values, and recreational pursuits. the availability of such cues should promote relatively strong consensus for observers judgments.  
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Process to momentary impressions   show
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show obtain self ratings from the occupants and peer ratings from the occupants close acquaintances. We obtained accuracy estimates by correlating The observers rating with the combined self and peer ratings  
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What the cues are correlated with   show
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